Posts Tagged ‘Donald Trump’

(Media Release) Google has said there was a dramatic spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news of the UK’s decision to leave the EU broke. The overwhelming majority of the searches came from Northern Ireland. The search giant also reported more searches for “what happens if we leave the EU” around midnight on […]

(Media Release) Donald Trump’s campaign is almost broke, and is paying an unusual amount of money to Trump-owned businesses. That’s according to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s FEC filing, details of which were released Monday night. The report provided a number of rather shocking facts, including that his campaign raised just $3.1 million in May […]

(Media Release) North Korea has hacked into more than 140,000 computers at large South Korean conglomerates and government agencies and planted malicious codes that may have been intended for a massive cyber attack that has been thwarted, a news report said on Monday. The hacking originated from an internet address traced to the North Korean […]

(Media Release) During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 (U.S.) contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah’s at Trump Plaza. The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 […]

(Media Release) Barack Obama is about to tell Bernie Sanders that the revolution stops now. On Tuesday evening Mr Obama called Hillary Clinton to congratulate her on securing enough delegates to “clinch” the Democratic nomination. He also called Bernie Sanders to thank him for his hard-fought campaign. At the Vermont senator’s request, the two will […]

(Media Release) Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente should probably be a Republican. The walls in the lobby of his San Diego, California, office are dominated by photos in which he’s smiling alongside Republicans – Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and George W Bush, and 2008 nominee John McCain. He’s donated thousands of dollars to […]

(Media Release) On 23 September 1952, vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon gave a speech laying out “everything I have earned, everything I have spent and everything I own”. He concluded by challenging the Democratic candidate for president, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, to do the same. Governor Stevenson took the challenge one step further, releasing his […]